Kate Westcott, a gifted American art student, has come to Florence to study Michelangelo. Exploring the cobbled streets of the Renaissance city with her fellow student Marco, Kate feels the pull of destiny. And when the two uncover a chamber in a corridor sealed since the time of the Medicis, they m
Midnight angels: a novel
β Scribed by Lorenzo Carcaterra
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York;Florence (Italy);Italy;Florence
- ISBN
- 1299177271
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Kate Westcott, a gifted American art student, has come to Florence to study Michelangelo. Exploring the cobbled streets of the Renaissance city with her fellow student Marco, Kate feels the pull of destiny. And when the two uncover a chamber in a corridor sealed since the time of the Medicis, they make a stunning discovery: Michelangeloβs Midnight Angelsβthree small, exquisite sculptures long rumored to exist but never before seen. It is the find of a lifetimeβand the beginning of a nightmare.
Pursued by criminals, suspected by the Rome Art Squad, and navigating the underground network of a secret society, Kate and Marco must use all their cunning to protect Michelangeloβs workβand their lives.
β¦ Subjects
Crime
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
A sensory narrative poem capturing the rhythms of the universe and secrets of the subconscious with stunning linguistic dexterity from the author of On the Road A spontaneous writing project in the form of an extended prose poem, this sonorous and spiritually playful book is one of Jack Kerouac's mo
Is this the end of Max and Fang, and the beginning of Max and Dylan? Only Angel knows. Maximum Ride and her friends have always had each other's backs because they can't trust anyone else. No. Matter. What. But now the flock is up against a threat unlike any they've ever faced and, just when they ne
**In this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron's bestselling series, a deadly attack on one of Maine's last wild wolves leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch** **to an even bigger criminal conspiracy.** While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from B